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There's only three weeks left to take advantage of the early registration discount for The 8th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing May 15-17 in beautiful South Lake Tahoe, California. Boost your HPC expertise even further by participating in pre-conference tutorials on May 14. Registration is easy—just log on to www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/conferences/index.html and click on the registration link on the left side of the page. You won’t want to miss a moment of this year’s LCI conference. The technical program focuses on experiences with applications, tools, user environments and administration of large-scale clusters across a vast array of sectors. Vendor presentations and ample networking opportunities are also included. Check out the complete program at its Web site. And you’ll want to be sure to hear all of the keynote speakers: Horst Simon, Associate Laboratory Director, Computing Sciences, NERSC/LBNL; Don Becker, CTO, Penguin Computing; Norman L. Miller, staff scientist at LBNL; and Peter J. Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray Inc. The LCI Conference attracts the world’s top practitioners of clustered computing who gather to share experiences and update colleagues on the latest developments in the field. Don’t miss this opportunity to join other HPC professionals at the Embassy Suites Hotel Lake Tahoe resort to build the skills, knowledge and contacts you need to further your career. The 8th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing is sponsored by Allinea Software, Cisco Systems, Inc., Cluster Resources Inc., Cray Inc., DataDirect Networks, eXludus, Intel, Myricom, Inc., NCSA, PeakStream, Scali, and The Portland Group, Inc.